Tyan S2662 Trinity i7205 Motherboard Review - Page 3

Again, it's
difficult to discern an overall victor based on scattered
results. The P4G8X takes a narrow win over the P4PE,
followed by Intel's own i845PE solution and finally the Tyan
"Granite Bay" board. The apparent conclusion? A
gaming board the Trinity i7205 is not.

The Comanche
demo, which serves as a platform test here, yields similar
results. Both ASUS boards take notable leads, followed
by the Intel and then the Tyan board. We saw that the
board is able to achieve acceptable memory bandwidth scores
in Sandra 2003, so Tyan must be using conservative timings
elsewhere, slowing things down a bit relative to competing
products.

3D
Mark 2001 SE v.330

Synthetic DirectX 8
Gaming Performance

Run at the
default resolution of 1024x768, 3D Mark 2001 SE is less of a
platform test than the other gaming environments, but tells
the same tale we've been hearing for a couple of pages now.
Mainly, if you are looking to garner top performance, you'll
want to opt for a board aimed more directly at the
enthusiast. Or, you can take a negligible step down to
the i845PE chipset and save a lot of money. Quite
frankly, the performance difference between Intel's E7205
workstation chipset and the enthusiast i845PE chipset is
nonexistent in real-world usage.